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MAP Expresses Satisfaction at FCC’s Adoption of Cable Ownership Rules

Posted: Tuesday December 18, 2007

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO of Media Access Project, issued the following statement concerning today’s FCC decision to impose a 30% ownership cap on national cable ownership:

“We’ve been waiting a long time for these rules. The large cable companies already exercise excessive market power, which has resulted in high prices, lousy customer service and lots of copy cat programming. Making sure they can’t grow even bigger will enable competitors to get off the ground.”

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